Sunday, 23 August 2009

C R O I S S A N T S.

Look at them. Just look at them.

Delicious little bundles of love. Oh my, they were worth the wait.

Thanks to Rach (http://www.vanillasugarblog.blogspot.com/) for the tip off, I went in search of vegan croissants. After a brief, blind panic Mr T found them in the chillers; tubes and tubes of croissanty goodness!

This is what you need to be looking out for, and you can find them in your nearest Aldi:

They come as a rolled up tube of pastry, slice along the edges which are partially cut, roll them up and pop them in the oven for 15 minutes. Brilliant. They aren't exactly how I remember fresh croissants, but the insides are buttery, warm croissant dough and the outsides are golden flaky goodness. So no complaints, I could eat ten tubes in one go.

Thanks again for the tip, finally got some - so, soooo good!!! I also made some pain au chocolates with them. Just place some chopped dark chocolate and roll up, bake as normal. I put some flaked almonds on some before baking too then drizzled melted chocolate over top before serving. Deeelicious!!!

What fun. I'm currently waiting for the oven to heat up so I can bake some of these. Good news for people who have no Aldi: found some Pilsbury home-bake croissants at Tesco in Trowbridge next to chilled pastry.

Seriously-- these are bombdiggity. I haven't had vegan ones in a while.. but my husband didn't taste anything special-- which is a rarity! If he knows it's vegan it already "tastes funny". But I got him on these! Fantastic.-SylviaSeiko Ananta